Monster Tree Service has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The online article discusses Josh Skolnick's entrepreneurial story, starting when he created a lawn care and snow-removal company while still in high school. It also discusses how Skolnick got involved in the tree maintenance industry, ultimately building a multi-millionaire dollar company, Monster Tree Service. See below for the full article.
By: Diane Mastrull, Inquirer Columnist
Skolnick was just doing a favor for a frantic father of young girls when the Fort Washington native responded to a request in June 2008 to take down a dead elm.
Back then, trees weren't Skolnick's thing. Lawns and mulch were.
By the time he graduated from Upper Dublin High School in 2002, Skolnick was "making over six figures" from a lawn-cutting/snow-removal business he had started when he was 10 or 11.
When most of the Fort Washington native's friends were in college, Skolnick was investing $200,000 in a high-powered mulch blower, sensing opportunity in commercial mulch installation.
It was a solid hunch. By spring 2005, he owned three machines and was "blowing mulch from Long Island, N.Y., to Northern Virginia." By 2007, Skolnick had national accounts installing not only mulch, but playground chips as well.
"It was so large, I ended up selling my landscaping business," Skolnick said, declining to disclose how much he got for it in deference to the local buyer's privacy.
Which brings us to the call in 2008 from the former lawn-care client with the 70-foot elm that needed to be brought down before it fell down. Skolnick said he referred him to two tree-removal specialists who turned out to be either disinterested or too expensive.
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